Wire fence.



PATENTED JUNE 13, 1905.

I. K. HOLLINGER.

WIRE FENCE.

APPLIGATION FILED APR.8,1905.

Nrra Sra'ras Patented June 13, 1905.

ISAAC K. HOLLINGER, OF GREENVILLE, OHIO.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,039, dated June 13, 1905. Application filed April 8, 1905. Serial No. 254,564.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC K. HoLLINenR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in ire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention pertains to wire fences of the fabric type; and it contemplates the provision of a wire-fabric fence of such peculiar construction that it is adapted to be woven very rapidly and yet is stiff and strong.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a view illustratim of the mode of making the fence constituting the present and preferred embodiment of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section takenin the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 looking toward the right.

Similar letters and numerals designate corresponding parts in both views of the drawings, referring to which A A, B B, CO, D D, and E E are the wire runners of the fence. There may be any suitable number of the said runners, and they may be arranged equidistant, or the spaces between them may be gradually increased in width as they recede from the ground, as shown, without involving a departure from the.scope of my invention. Moreover, the said runners may be straight or may be crimped at intervals of their length, as indicated by (a and 7), without affecting my invention,

1, 2, 3, at, 5, and 6 are the wire stays of the fence.

In the making of the fence-c'. 0., in applying and connecting a stay to the several runners I take the steps one of which is illustrated by each of the stays 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. I commence the construction by forming loops in a stay, at intermediate points in the length thereof, and wrapping the said loops in opposite directions around the two inner runners A. This is illustrated by the stay 1, the upper loop 0 of which is carried under and over its complementary runner A and the lower loop 0 of which is carried over and under its complementary runner A. The practical advantages of thus wrapping the loops 0 in opposite directions about the runners adjacent thereto will be appreciated when it is noted that both wraps may be made at the same time, that the said wrappings in opposite directions place the stay at both wraps on the same side of the parallel runners A, and that, incident to the wrapping, one Wrap pulls against the other, with the result that casual endwise movement of the stay during the wrapping is precluded and tight connections of the stay to the runners and the prod notion of a stiff and strong fence are assured. After the loops 0 are wrapped about their complementary runners A loops d are wrapped in opposite directions about the next outer runners B, as illustrated by stay 2, loops e are wrapped in opposite directions about the next outer runners C, as illustrated by stay 3, and loops f are wrapped in opposite directions about the next outer runners D, as illustrated by stay 4, subsequent to which the bights of all of the loops are cut at g, and the stay is hooked over the outermost or lower and upper runners E, as illustrated by the stay 5. The loops (Z may be wrapped at the same time, as may also the loops cand the loops with the advantages hereinbefore ascribed to the loops 0. Subsequent to the cutting of the several loops and the hooking of the stay over the runners Ethe portions it of the several loops 0, (Z, c, and f and the hooks in are twisted about their complementary runners at one time, as illustrated by the stay 6, the portions it and the free portions of the hooks in being each twisted twice by preference around the runners adjacent thereto. The twists mentioned are preferably located at the crimps b of the runners, as shown, in order to prevent casual movement of the twists in the direction of the length of the runners.

It Will be gathered from the foregoing that a fence constructed in accordance with my invention is possessed of great strength and stiffness notwithstanding the facility with which it may be produced.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wire fence, the combination with runners; of a stay comprising a lower series of sections having adjacent end portions twisted together in one direction around adjacent runners, and an upper series of sections having adjacent end portions twisted together in the opposite direction around adjacent runners.

2. In a wire fence, the combination with crimped runners; of a stay comprising a lower series of sections having adjacent end portions twisted together in one direction around the crimped portions of adjacent runners, and. an upper series of sections having adjacent end portions twisted together in the opposite direction around the crimped portions of adjacent runners.

3. The method of making a wire fence which consists in providing a wire stay with lower loops and upper loops, simultaneously wrapping the lower loops in one direction and the upper loops in the opposite direction about adj acent runners, cutting the loops at the bi ghts thereof, and twisting the end portions thereby formed about the runners.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC K. HOLLINGER.

W itnesses:

FRANK S. GORDON, blue. 13. KATZENBERGER. 

